Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-07-05
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CHIcAao. July s.-A sperial Dispatch
/ 20 morning paper fronn Care, Mica,
says THAI Mrs. Brooks, whose peonIiaF
aisappearanoe from her home Mt Juni-
akA, Michigan, and whoss Sensational
letter from her place Of imprisonment
10 Colorado, vas given vide publicity,
| has returned home With a remarkable
story which she told today amid Q sor.
rent OF tsara. She is looking hagRard
| and carewcrn. Her wrists bear she avi.
denee Of her assertion that she was bFu.
tally tied up, and her finger ends Ger.
tainly look aa II her claim that an Ct
tempt vas made 20
DRAW RKR NAILS
With pincers, was true. she said:
twenty-five years ago / was engaged
% be married to Marquis Van D0ra.
He catered the army, was wounded,
came home and died. He wss in pos
session Of q competency, bat insa be
fore bis death this was increased BY q !
large legacy from France. The Mar |
qnia vas descendant Of Ooans Van |
DoFe, Q French nohieman. This legacy |
was all IN cash and bonds. Before his /
death Van Dora mada q will, bequeakh-
ing me $4,000. The instrument was /
drawn up By lawyer shooman of Indt-
ana. IL vas not until several years Il
later that became appFised Of the na-
tnre OF the will, and was then married i
10 Mr.. Brooks. When spoke Of prov
ioR my claim, my husband grew indiR-
SAINT, and declared that might
TAKE MY LovKR's MoxKY
And 90. The trouble over this money
was the only cloud that came into our
married life. and for fourteen years
brooded over il. Then came q letter
from the lawyer stating that the money
was lying idle and that / should claim
is. It was In the custody Of Anna Van
Dore, the Marquis sister. Later we
met and entered into correspondence
which was kept mp until Miss Van Dofe
left for France.
Before she vent, an understanding
was reached that | should have the
We aQresd upon Q secret mark 10 |
attach 10 all the checks and drafts.
Last fall q letter came asking me 10
meet the lady in St. Louis, bat instead /
1f meeting her
LAwXKR sHooMAN APPEARED
On the scene and gave me q draft for
$50, 900 tnQetheR with @20,000 cash. l
hen went to DenveF, and shortly after
wards rseeived q note asking me 20 meet
Miss Van Dore AZ Pueblo. vent there
md again Sho0man appeared. telling ,
ne thai Miss Van Dore was dying.
tainted, and when reRained conscious
leas- fouEd myself q prisoner. The
iraft and check / had seereted In my
,ustie, but my iailers had secured 10.
vas kept imprisoned In a rosm for
sseks alone, and while there, Ihut out :
rom all vomanly oompanionship Rnd
deprived Of all care and attention 50 :
.reatly needed,
MI BABE Was BoRN. .
they killed by babe before my very q
yes. Three weeks ago q man entered '
ny room and said was free 10 90. He
xplained she delay BY saying that the Q
nan who kept me prisoner said was
lie crazy sister. The tortures 10 which 4
was subjected Look here" and Mrs. o.
brooks held up her hands 10 view
When | had recovered sufficiently o
rent 10 San Francisco and there 3
MET ANNA BUrTERFIELp, q
Ay cousin. Together We started East, =
'ut becoming suspicious that she was =
o q conspiracy aRainst my liberty, n
tipped out Of the car one night, taking 4
nth nae her hat, dress, pocketbook and !,
ioket. waited until the next train
nd then proceeded on my journey"
MFa Brooks shows booty taken from II
6iss Buiterfield, as evidence that
SHE rs TELLING THE TRUTH. q
fr. Brooks saws be has no doubt as 10 u
be truth Of his wifs's story. The cou- u
lie Appeared 10 be fond Of each other,
nd there is nothing sentimental about l
isher. Mrs. Brooks attribates her re- q
ease 10 the publication q month AGO OF Q
he fact that detectives had been pnt 10 Q
FoFk on her case BY her friends. o